Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill Eight, Including a Four-Year-Old, Hospitals Say
Hospital officials said a missile hit a group of civilians beside a Gaza City school, killing three people including a young boy, and the Hamas-run interior ministry said a drone strike in Khan Younis killed five police officers — all despite a ceasefire now a year old.
Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least eight people, including a four-year-old boy, according to hospital officials, the BBC reported on Sunday — the latest in what the report called near-daily attacks despite a ceasefire that came into force more than a year ago.
In Gaza City, hospital officials said a missile attack hit a group of civilians next to Cairo School in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood, killing three people, including the child. A source at al-Shifa Hospital told Reuters the strike, on al-Thawra Street, also wounded six people. Outside Shifa Hospital, video showed a crowd of men gathered to pray next to two body bags and the small body of the child, wrapped in a white towel, the BBC reported.
In the southern city of Khan Younis, the Hamas-run ministry of interior said a drone attack targeted a group of police officers in the Al-Mawasi area, killing five, as they were carrying out their routine duties. The ministry named the five officers, who were between the ages of 23 and 53. At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, video showed women in despair as body bags lay on the floor.
The Israeli military said it had carried out two attacks on what it described as military operatives, but has not yet provided evidence or further information, the BBC reported. The ceasefire that took effect in October last year brought the release of thousands of Palestinians held by Israel in exchange for the 48 remaining hostages in Gaza. Since it began, 1,580 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures the United Nations considers reliable.
